Summer Support Requests

Please note that due to summer holiday schedules, support ticket response time may be delayed and will be operated on a best-efforts basis. We appreciate your patience and to resuming full operations in the fall! Comments and feedback is always welcome to info@westgrid.ca as we work to continually improve our efforts to support your research.

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User Training and Seminars

WestGrid Training Events

WestGrid offers in-person and online training sessions on topics such as getting started with WestGrid, programming languages, specialized software, research data management, and data visualization tools. Click the linked buttons above to view the events schedule or the archive of materials and events.

Additional information on many of these topics is also provided in the Support section. For more information on how to use the WestGrid computational infrastructure, please contact WestGrid Support.

WestGrid YouTube Channel

WestGrid posts recordings of all of its training videos to its YouTube Channel. We also use that channel to share training videos by the other regions and Compute Canada, including the 'Getting Started with Compute Canada National Systems' mini-webinar series, which has short tutorials on:

Visualization Workshops

WestGrid offers a recurring introductory workshop on scientific visualization using Paraview. ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application which enables users to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. Hosted by Alex Razoumov, WestGrid's Visualization Coordinator, these day-long workshops explore the basics of scientific visualization with hands-on exercises using 1-, 2- and 3-dimensional data sets. If you would like to request a workshop be hosted at your institution, please contact Alex Razoumov. For more information on the course outline and materials, click here.

Research Seminars

WestGrid partners with groups to expand the reach of their research seminars with multi-point videoconferences or online webstreams. Currently, we are supporting the VanBUG (Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group) Seminar Series.

VanBUG is an association of researchers, other professionals and students in the B.C. Lower Mainland who have an interest in the field of bioinformatics. VanBUG meets on the second Thursday of every month from September through April. Research presentations are delivered by bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives. For more information, contact dev@vanbug.org.